By Ehren Wynder | ewynder@mlive.com
Publication Date: 2026-01-27 03:32:00
KENT COUNTY — The Lowell Township Board did not intend to discuss the controversial $1 billion Microsoft data center project on Tuesday, but hundreds of residents wouldn’t stay silent on the subject.
The board hosted its first meeting of the new year on Tuesday, Jan. 26, in the auditorium of Lowell High School at 11700 Vergennes St. SE.
After a handful of contentious data center meetings in December, township officials emphasized in an online notice that the proposed Microsoft data center was not on the agenda for Tuesday’s meeting.
The notice, however, did not stop residents from turning out in droves for a lengthy and at times heated public comment period.
“Even if the township says the data center is not on the agenda, the data center is on the agenda from here until we have next steps, whether that means there is going to be a zoning opportunity, whether that means this is going to be defeated — as we hope it will — or if that means there’s a moratorium,” Betsy…
